Medical Info Overload?
…wrong path, develop anxiety around imaginary medical issues, or even demand that the doctor test him for something he thinks he may have. In an era of rising costs and…
…wrong path, develop anxiety around imaginary medical issues, or even demand that the doctor test him for something he thinks he may have. In an era of rising costs and…
With industries relying on them and profits to be made, weather forecasts are more precise and more popular than ever. But there are clouds on the horizon. Zachary Crockett grabs…
…— even for elite wine critics. Winemaker Robert Hodgson recently collaborated with the California State Fair wine competition on a little wine-tasting experiment: Each panel of four judges would be…
The Society of Labor Economists, a professional organization, gives awards to worthy scholars. One is for lifetime achievement, the other to a scholar who finished his/her education within the past…
…labor-market outcomes for Israeli students at Hebrew University (a leading university) and the College of Management Academic Studies (a “professional undergraduate college”). The authors found that a degree from an…
…both promise and risk,” writes Ben Smith in the News. “One page cites the explicit concern that he might ‘drop out of [the] race’ as a consequence of his potentially…
This blog has clever readers. One of them, Corey Forbes, writes in to say: We know that point shaving, game throwing, match fixing, and referee scandals have existed in professional…
In which we argue that failure should not only be tolerated but celebrated.
…Photo: daveynin And yet Belichick, and dozens of great football coaches over the years, continue to be creative. Why? Professional football is the apotheosis of cutthroat competition. In the NFL,…
…main activity. Their example is the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). Better-looking golfers get lower scores (perform better) — but only going from average-lookers to the best-looking. Below the average,…
…for a rival company (as he is the member of a professional sports team that made a deal with the rival). Remember Michael Jordan and the famous Nike/Reebok Olympic conflict?…
Sure, markets generally work well. But for some transactions — like school admissions and organ transplants — money alone can’t solve the problem. That’s when you need a market-design wizard…
…check out FP‘s photoessay “The Ice Kingdom,” which includes images of melting glaciers and “[a] U.S. submarine rest[ing] after breaking through three feet of ice on the Arctic Ocean…” [%comments]…
Sure, we all dream of leaving the office forever. But what if it’s bad for your health?
Photo: Comstock Water is a topic that’s come up repeatedly on this blog. We’ve written about attempts to do away with bottled water; why it’s a bad idea to…
…their work appreciate significantly in value. But it does nothing for the 99% of artists whose work has little enduring commercial value. Not only does it not help them, it…
To you, it’s just a ride-sharing app that gets you where you’re going. But to an economist, Uber is a massive repository of moment-by-moment data that is helping answer some…
Read the Column » Table of Contents: The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. Dart performance as a function of facets of practice amongst professional and amateur men and…
…together a book of essays written by teen girls. What will make this one special, elevate it from any teen genre-type collection, is that I’m absolutely committed to their words,…
…have fairly rapidly found evidence of intruders who have had access into the network for some time, completely undetected by the victim organization. Extrapolating from that to the majority of…
…it should be encouraged for exactly the same reasons that pollution should be discouraged. Q: Do you work especially hard to come up with counterintuitive examples so that people will…
…and German professional leagues, as well as the 2010 Major League Soccer season and the 2010 World Cup. He concluded that if their team is behind, managers should make the…
…claims made in his letter, but I see no reason why he would make them up: ——– Subject: Child Safety Seats FYI, My first professional job as a statistician was…
A reader named Desmond Lawrence writes from London with further commentary on our “How Much Does Your Name Matter” podcast — specifically, about Harvard computer scientist Latanya Sweeney‘s research which…
…career from behind the line. Unfortunately, he has hit something of a drought when it comes to 3-point shooting as a pro: he is for 2 in his 11-year professional…
Does anyone ever win the giant teddy bear? Zachary Crockett steps right up….
…paired with corruption scores from Transparency International, Bruner notes in his blog post: Fisman and Miguel set out to use the parking data to understand the impact of social norms…
…the city’s professional sports teams and major cultural institutions combined.” I have to admit, when I first read that number, I couldn’t believe it. More library visitors than all those…
…week. Davenport said the idea, due to start next year, could lead to tactical play. “There’s [the potential for] a lot of fixing if your friend needs you to win…
…phone-betting hubs, says McClelland, because phone betting presents better economics: Since [phone hubs] don’t have to maintain a grandstand or feed horses, they can kick money back to their customers….
